Important Historical Events of the year 1786, Year 1786 in History

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List of 1786 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1786

What happened in the year 1786?

Date	Event
January 16, 1786	Virginia enacts the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.
June 10, 1786	A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.
June 25, 1786	Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea.
June 29, 1786	Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
August 7, 1786	The first federal Indian Reservation is created by the United States.
August 8, 1786	Mont Blanc on the French-Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
August 11, 1786	Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.
August 29, 1786	Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
September 11, 1786	The beginning of the Annapolis Convention.
November 7, 1786	The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
November 30, 1786	The Grand Duchy of Tuscany, under Pietro Leopoldo I, becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty (later commemorated as Cities for Life Day).
December 4, 1786	Mission Santa Barbara is dedicated (on the feast day of Saint Barbara).